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Boys, Toys and the Big Blue Marble

Name: Boys, Toys and the Big Blue Marble
Duration: 52 min

Marquise Lepage

2007 | 52 min

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Boys living in poverty across the world tell us of their lives, amusements and sometimes their hopes. Boys, Toys and the Big Blue Marble appraises childhoods destroyed by slavery, criminality, war, sexual exploitation and human stupidity.

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Credits

participant

Reinaldo Tellez Cardenas

Jhonny Dorado-Castro

Anikoumah

Shiran

Janish

Myo Ming

Soe Thue

Anthony Pedro

Armand Marco

Fabricio

William

Abdoulaye

Modibhu

Bouba

Bouya

Alasane
research

Nancy Marcotte

Évangéline De Pas

Marquise Lepage

Erica Pomerance

Capucine Powers

Sarah Champagne
stock shot research

Évangéline De Pas

Nancy Marcotte
unit manager

Erica Pomerance

Serge Lafortune

Eunice Gutman

Marie-Ève Drouin-Gagné
translation

Eunice Gutman

Mamadou Nango

Marie-Ève Drouin-Gagné

Sally Mowlay

Myo Min

Kevin Balthazaar

Stephen Balthazaar

Nancy Marcotte

Joseph Pakiasothy

Yacoumba Doumbia

Ninfa Calizaya Baltazar

Jimmy Escobar Oyola

Claire Rothman
camera

François Vincelette
additional camera

Marquise Lepage

Katerine Giguère
sound

Mélanie Gauthier

Marc Larouche
editing

Dominique Champagne
song - writer

Jamil
original music

Jamil
musician

Jamil

Nicolas Grégoire

Julien Bradette

Renno Pichardo

Nathalie Kora
singer and musician

Rafael Martin Neves

Fabio Henrique Da Silva

Leandro Pires Vieira

Arnaldo, Junior Tavares

Jeferson Seuza

Grupo Rumillajta

Luis Copa-Choque

Supay Wawas

Grupo Kolla Suyonan

Cheik Ouman Coulibaly

Bouba Kouyate
music recording

Stéphane Grimm
mix

Stéphane Grimm
online editing

Michel Tougas
supervisor

François Senneville
sound designer

François Senneville
assistant

Pierre Laroche

Jérôme Lapointe
dialog editing

Guy Pelletier

Valérie Dufort-Boucher
foley artist

Nicolas Gagnon
off-cam voice

Lawrence Arcouette

Marc Saint-Martin

Alexis Chartrand

Gabriel Benoit

Marquise Lepage
off-cam voice recording

Vincent Dufour

Benoît Leduc
audio mixer

Gavin Fernandes Cas
head of development

Stéphanie Verrier
administrator

Jean Brien
production coordinator

Christine Dugas
post-production coordinator

Isabelle Fortier
executive producer

Marcel Simard
producer

Monique Simard
script

Marquise Lepage
director

Marquise Lepage
voice director

A.J. Henderson

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